Hello, reporters Spicuzza and Luthern. http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/mi lwaukee/2017/07/04/rights-group-accusesmilwaukee- leaders-expanding-cooperationimmigration- officials/449011001/ Your article linked above includes this: “We completely condemn the undemocratic process by which this decision was made,” Neumann-Ortiz said. “Basically the community was kept in the dark that the city, under Barrett’s leadership, was caving into pressure from the Trump administration.” That “undemocratic charge” reveals…
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No Crystal Ball for Long-term Climate Predictions
A White House climate change appears open to hosting fresh air cool-headed debates that separate science from sanctimony. The new EPAdirector, Scott Pruitt, advocates peerreviewed investigations of facts and fictions regarding key areas of agreement and dispute. Don’t be surprised to learn that overall, there are more areas of general agreement than contention. First, no…
Larry Bell
Honest Climate Debate Will Expose Rigged Science
Some leading “warminista warriors” are very steamed up regarding any suggestions that their politicized science and alarmist messaging be subjected to cool-headed debates. Climate modeler Benjamin Santer, MIT meteorology professor Kerry Emanuel and non-scientist climate catastrophe activist Harvard history professor Naomi Oreskes expressed their four-alarm fury in a June 21 Washington Post op-ed titled “Attention…
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Appleton Schools Violated Open Meetings Law
Decision resolves dispute over book review committee that met in secret Milwaukee, WI – In a victory for open and transparent government in Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that the Appleton Area School District violated the Open Meetings Law by excluding the public from meetings of a formal book review committee. The…
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NEA Representative Assembly Issues Insolent Threat to Secretary DeVos and Moves to Silence Dissent
Some educators may have hoped that the gathering of teachers and school support staff at the annual NEA Representative Assembly in Boston over the fourth of July weekend would provide an opportunity for educators to present good ideas and solutions to some of the vexing achievement issues plaguing public education. If you were hoping for…
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Oklahoma’s Former Governor: Subsidised Wind Power a Multi- Billion Dollar Mistake
As Mark Twain put it: “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” And, even when the dupe accepts his folly, sorry seems to be the hardest word. Frank Keating was governor of Oklahoma 1995-2003 and is responsible for its wind power calamity, as he calls it. Uncharacteristically of…